Minor works

The Louis Joseph Alexandre Mercier Papers contain materials covering the entire range of Mercier's public and professional life. The bulk of the collection comprises multiple drafts of his many addresses and articles, as well as auxiliary materials Mercier collected for his writings. Those topics to which Mercier devoted the most time, Humanism and Naturalism, Irving Babbitt, and the Classics in Education, are particularly well represented, as are his major works, Le Mouvement Humaniste aux Etats Unis, The Challenge of Humanism, and American Humanism and the New Age. Many pages of Mercier's autograph lecture notes and class materials are also included, as well as printed copies of a number of his published articles, and offprints of articles sent to him.

Mercier's influence in the fields of education, foreignlanguage teaching, and philosophy are revealed in the correspondence he received. Paul Elmer More, Norman Foerster, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and Baron Ernest Seilliére are all well represented, not to mention the large number of letters Mercier received from Catholic educators. A large section of correspondence related to Mercier's activities in the American Association of Teachers of French, and other organizations, completes the collection.

Please see the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.